When you start out creating circuits with the Raspberry Pi and its GPIO pins, there's an unexpected but important concept to understand, called "floating". To adjust for it, you need to understand how to use pullup and pulldown resistors....

I finally unboxed my Pi a few weeks ago, and since then I’ve been learning some Python, which is the primary language of the Pi. A whole new world opens up when you start experimenting with the GPIO pins, which let you interact with other devices and react to the surrounding environment....

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